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Antifreeze proteins can stop ice melt, new study finds

The same antifreeze proteins that keep organisms from freezing in cold environments also can prevent ice from melting at warmer temperatures, according to a new Ohio University and Queen's University study ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 01, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast




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Huge tornadoes discovered on the Sun

(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar tornadoes several times as wide as the Earth can be generated in the solar atmosphere, say researchers in the UK. A solar tornado was discovered using the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (37) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Future NASA mission to sun 'a life's dream' for some

The chest-high rack of electronics Justin Kasper is assembling in a Massachusetts office park will fit in a shoe box before he's done.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 10

Astrophysicist team suggests axions could explain dearth of lithium-7 in dark matter theory

(PhysOrg.com) -- In trying to understand how everything came to be as it appears today, astrophysicists have put together theories that seek to explain how events transpired from the time of the Big Bang, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 37 | with audio podcast report

Of microchemistry and molecules: Electronic microfluidic device synthesizes biocompatible probes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Microfluidic chemistry is fast gaining popularity – and for good reason: In addition to allowing highly-precise reaction control, micro-reactions often exhibit higher yield and proceed ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Waiting for Death Valley's Big Bang: A volcanic explosion crater may have future potential

In California's Death Valley, death is looking just a bit closer. Geologists have determined that the half-mile-wide Ubehebe Crater, formed by a prehistoric volcanic explosion, was created far more recently ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

NSTX project will produce world's most powerful spherical torus

DOE's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is getting an earlier-than-expected start on a $94 million, nearly three-year project as the next stage of its mission to chart an attractive course for the ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Loss of planetary tilt could doom alien life

Although winter now grips much of the Northern Hemisphere, those who dislike the cold weather can rest assured that warmer months shall return. This familiar pattern of spring, summer, fall and winter does ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Earliest-yet observation of August SN2011fe supernova nails it: Destroyed star was white dwarf

Last year's discovery of the nearest Type Ia supernova in decades – captured only 11 hours after it exploded – allowed astronomers to finally cinch the identity of the stars behind these explosions, which have become ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

When galaxy clusters collide

A UC Davis graduate student who is leading a study of the collision of galaxy clusters 5 billion light years away will discuss the team's findings today, Jan. 10, in a press briefing at the annual meeting of the American ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Canadian firm bids to commercialize fusion reactor

In the race against world governments and the wealthiest companies to commercialize a nuclear fusion reactor, a small, innovative Canadian firm is hoping to bottle and sell the sun's energy.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (21) | comments 79


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